Mark Barton News

The Royal Shakespeare Company will celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday (23 April) in Skegness staging Romeo and Juliet in local schools and The Embassy Theatre.

The winners of the 2024 Wicked Writers: Be The Change writing competition have been revealed!

BroadStage audience favorite mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča returns as part of the Celebrity Opera Recital Series on Friday, May 10, 2024 at 7:30pm at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica Performing Arts Center. Garanča is accompanied by an orchestra with the highly esteemed British conductor Karel Mark Chichon.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson joined Live with Kelly and Mark on Thursday to discuss his podcast Dinner's On Me, where he takes celebrities out for dinner and a conversation. One of the unique things about Ferguson's podcast is that it isn't a controlled environment, he says. He went on to talk about specific accommodations for guests and a dream guest that he wants to appear on the podcast. Watch the interview here!

Corey Cott joined Live with Kelly and Mark on Thursday to discuss his role in the new musical The Heart of Rock and Roll. Describing the show, Cott explained: 'This show is just this unfettered vibe of optimism and positivity. We've been using this phrase: 'It's a John Hughes rom-com; a love letter to the '80s with Huey Lewis and The News music.'' Watch the interview here!

DON’T TELL MAMA will present Judi Mark with a musical celebration of four-time Tony Award winner Gwen Verdon and her hit Broadway shows including “Damn Yankees,” “Redhead,” “Sweet Charity” and “Chicago.”

Comedian Mark Normand is bringing his national Ya Don’t Say Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre, Saturday, August 17, 2024, at 7:00 pm.

Catch the hilarious Mark Normand live at North Charleston PAC on November 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Don't miss out on a night of laughter and entertainment.

Liev Schreiber, who is currently playing the role of Father Flynn in the Broadway production of Doubt, visited Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday. On the show, Schreiber talked about playing the accused priest and how the themes in the play are still very timely, almost 20 years after it debuted. Watch the video here!

On May 17th BAM will present IRONWEED: An Evening of Art & Humanity, based on William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Chicago Dramatists will host a unique two-night theatrical celebration of acclaimed Mark Larson's new book, Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation.

Watch Stephen Mark Lukas, who plays Nick Arnstein in the National Tour of Funny Girl, discuss the production on CBS Los Angeles in the video here!

One Deep River, the eagerly awaited tenth solo studio album from Mark Knopfler, has just debuted. The new LP offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond. Listen to the album here!

Pittsburgh's biggest musical theatre company is making big moves to support and diversify its audience. A series of focus group encounters led Fleischer and his team to a single recurring idea: remove the barriers that prevent potential audience members from coming, and from returning, to CLO shows.

Ahead of his third appearance at the Mark Taper Forum under the banner Feinstein's at the Taper, BroadwayWorld sat down to chat with Michael Feinstein about the upcoming performance of RAINBOW: The New Judy Garland Musical on Saturday, April 13 at 8PM.

Chicago's beloved jazz duo, Anne and Mark Burnell, will return to New York City after 20 years for a one-night performance at Don't Tell Mama.

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet will return to the Mark Morris Dance Center with a revival of Magloire's 'Secret Place,'  a tribute to the power of the group, a casual gathering of five people dancing - delicate, bold, sometimes risky, always with spine-tingling elegance. 

Mark Normand is bringing his first national theater tour, Ya Don’t Say Tour, to Overture Center with two performances on Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Capitol Theater.

Alistair McDowall’s critically acclaimed Captain Amazing opens this May at Southwark Playhouse. The production will see the original creative team of actor Mark Weinman, and director Clive Judd reunite to mark an incredible 10 years since the show first blew audiences away. Here Mark and Clive talk about reuniting after decade, the joy of the ordinary and shining a light on the 'quiet' people.

Sarasota Jewish Theatre will  present Mark Harelik's “The Immigrant,” based on a true story, as its closing play of the 2023-24 season.